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HELP!!!! I bricked my phone!!!

I had rooted my phone with ODIN and installed the Debloated Rom and everything was working fine. I had the urge to go back to the stock ROM so i went into CWM recovery and did a wipe and installed the original ROM and now my phone doesnt work. It stays stuck on the samsung screen, can anyone help me please? I am clueless on how to fix this. Oh and its also not mounting the sdcard i get and E:can't mound sdcard error....this is horrible.

Try this
www.mydroidworld.com/forums/droid-c...harge-full-factory-tar-flashing-software.html
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Thank you sooo much, will try right now

Do i flash the tar using ODIN? or do i use the samsung flashing software to flash the tar?

Use odin. Post results
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Not having any luck. I tried odin and it failed, i tried the flashing software and it keeps giving me an error.

Hey thanks man for all your help!!! I got it to work. Dont know what was wrong with the flashing but i just kept insisting and the error went away and it finally flashed it. Thank you soo much.!!!!

That's great news! Not just for you (glad it worked) but for others that may have potentially bricked their phones.

thareefer said:
Hey thanks man for all your help!!! I got it to work. Dont know what was wrong with the flashing but i just kept insisting and the error went away and it finally flashed it. Thank you soo much.!!!!
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I was going to tell you not to give up.... odin sometimes has a mind of its own.... glad I was able to help and good for you for not giving up!!
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Did you select just pda option on odin or pda as well as phone? I am stuck at setup connection

rukshmani said:
Did you select just pda option on odin or pda as well as phone? I am stuck at setup connection
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Pretty sure you have to use the flashing software in the post and follow the directions. Samsung PST or whatever its called.
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From other post that I have read, you always use PDA not phone when flashing roms. I soft bricked my phone is error and I flashed EE4Xstock_DXC.TAR helped on my end.

I found out what i was doing wrong. With odin its ok to remove the battery to load files and i accidently removed the battery using the samsung software and you are not suppose to do that, the battery must stay in for the process to work.

[Q] Help! Bricked Skyrocket!!!

I don't really know what happened actually...I was on quickwiz 1.0.3 for about a week and last night my battery drained off completely and the skyrocket shut itself off...after I charged it up this morning, I saw a series of force closes and I did see some interesting message about "system UDI" or something not being compatible...dont remember what it was exactly though...
after that, i thought the device was soft bricked and used k0nane's method of odin to revert it back....the odin said that it was successful and rebooted my device...but, my mobile is now stuck at the bootlogo(at&t rethink possible) and keeps running that boot animation over and over without booting up entirely...
Any suggestions on how to recover from this plz?
I saw that the counter was incremented...so returning this is an issue now...trying to order my jig for that...any help will be greatly appreciated

Did you revert back to stock recovery? If so have you tried flashing cwm recovery using Odin?
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If you can get into cwm recovery try restoring a nandroid if you made one if not try flashing a rom but wipe data and cache first
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LoGaN- said:
I don't really know what happened actually...I was on quickwiz 1.0.3 for about a week and last night my battery drained off completely and the skyrocket shut itself off...after I charged it up this morning, I saw a series of force closes and I did see some interesting message about "system UDI" or something not being compatible...dont remember what it was exactly though...
after that, i thought the device was soft bricked and used k0nane's method of odin to revert it back....the odin said that it was successful and rebooted my device...but, my mobile is now stuck at the bootlogo(at&t rethink possible) and keeps running that boot animation over and over without booting up entirely...
Any suggestions on how to recover from this plz?
I saw that the counter was incremented...so returning this is an issue now...trying to order my jig for that...any help will be greatly appreciated
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you should go into stock recovery Which you have if you flashed Konanes stock file.....and wipe data. if that does not do the trick. i would try wiping data again....doing the stock one more time. i been in that exact same boat, as have others. this is what i did to get out. but others have had luck just flashing 3e recovery and wiping data 3 times, flash CMW via odin and restore a nandroid to get back up and running or staying at stock. its up to you.
hope this helps.

Thanks for the reply man...but I didnt really follow what u said back there ...odining back the tar that k0nane gave should return the unit back to stock-meaning i should have the stock recovery as well...but I dont know why my skyrocket didn't boot up the whole way
Lemme explain what I did initially with my device actually- After I got my skyrocket, I used copperhed's method to flash clockwork cwm thru odin and rooted the device..after that, I flashed the quickwiz 1.0.3 thru the clockwork recovery and the thing I mentioned before happened to me...nothing more, nothing less...after this force close thing I had initially on quickwiz, I tried restoring my previous nandoid backups and all of them stopped at the bootanimation looping...nothing booted the whole way up and yes, I wiped for each restore...with none of them working, I started the k0nane's odining
I actually got this all worked out somehow now and want to share this info as it might help someone who had the same issue...After flashing the k0nane's tar thru odin, I went into the 3e recover and tried a factory reset...it asked me for a password there and i typed in the wrong password a couple of times as i dont know what the right one is...after some wrong attempts, it formatted everything(/data, cache and even the sdcad) and voila...my skyrocket booted up fine...i didnt worry much to do this as I had nothing on my sdcard and also since i have nandroid's of all my previous ROM's
But I still wanna know why this all happened..
all this panic cost me about 30 bucks to order a jig faster thru EMS....and my counter is up by 2 as I odin'd the tar twice thinking it might work

Thanks for the reply man...just figured it out...

A similar thing happened to me once, i flashed cm7 then i flash da_g kernal. After that, my phone was stuck on cm7 logo. I went back to stock and i was stuck at the rethink possible logo. After that i restared my phone into the stock recovery mode and i wiped everything and i was able to get my phone back.

LoGaN- said:
Thanks for the reply man...just figured it out...
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i think you made this harder than it was, i honestly STILL dont know WHY this happens. but alot of people have had it happen. some say its undervolting( but i never did any of that) others thinks its Da 'gs Kernel which you were on if you flashed QuickWiz and i had his running as well. some think its the CWM itself that that is causing this because it is not for advice.
Over the past week i have STOPPED using Da g's kernel and have not that happen again.
either way, i think you went into a panic, the steps i listed WILL work weather you flashed 3e with odin or Return to stock to get 3e with Odin and WIPE ALL DATA, and CACHE. im glad you got it going though. sorry you waisted your 30 bucks bruh.

thanks for ur concern bro...i just panicked coz i wanted a working phone asap and i thought of returning mine at the att store...so used the ems shipping for faster delivery of the jig...and minutes after I ordered it, I got it all working...u can see the heights of irony here ...nyway....am glad to see it happen atleast once as I will know what to do if this happens again...for the moment, am gonna stay away from the OC kernels...

Did the flash counter reset?
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LoGaN- said:
After flashing the k0nane's tar thru odin, I went into the 3e recover and tried a factory reset...it asked me for a password there and i typed in the wrong password a couple of times as i dont know what the right one is.....
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So.... is there some secret 3e factory reset password we need??

DoctorQMM said:
So.... is there some secret 3e factory reset password we need??
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i have never seen this in 3e.....i would like to know how to get to that screen.

Yeah wtf? Ive never seen a password in any recovery post a picture of this please

hmn...i will try to see if i can do this on the weekend...my flash counter is already up by 2...what harm will it do for one more
if you want,you can follow my procedure and it will ask for it again...just odin the tar given by k0nan and go into the 3e recovery by holdin volume up+down and power on...do a wipe and it will ask for it...
and no, my flash counter didnt reset...have to wait for my jig and try resetting it
silver03wrx said:
Yeah wtf? Ive never seen a password in any recovery post a picture of this please
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now my skyrocket back screen wont turn on, everytime i tried to get into download my computer pop up messege that cant not find QHSUSB_Dload, anyone can help me out?

So you phone wont so anything? No download mode and no recovery? If so order a usb jig

(Q) How To Correct Corrupted/Faulty DATA Partition on P6800?

Hello..
I'm getting ERROR message everytime I try to enter the recovery mood. Its happened 2 days ago. I've tried to flash the stock ROM for several times and hoping that could correct this issue. Unfortunately, that couldn't help and leaving me dissapointed.
I noticed this issue for the first time when my device cannot process the command line "Updating BLA BLA..." during entering the recovery mood. Its stop there and nothing is happened for about more than 5 minutes until I forced it to shutdown by long pressing the power button. Then, I tried to enter the recovery mood for the second time. You guys know what happened to my device?
I predict that situation is okay until when I try to WIPE all data and encountered an error message with the red text asking me to 'use UI to format system and reboot'.
But, I still don't know what to do. I'm hoping that you guys with kind hearted to please do help me. Thanks in advance.
One more thing, please teach me how to make this flash counter mark (!) disapear......... THANKS.
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Mind was replaced new mainboard.
If you cannot, I recommend you read Samsung note forum. There are thread about 'parted' command to repartition to skip bad block. Mind was success to skip and boot but lost a lot of gigabyte.
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Thanks for replying to my question.. Will read the forum for sure.. Thank you.

Recently I faced the similar problem twice. The 1st time was using ODIN to flash the latest CWM and then format the DATA folder through the advance setting... solved the problem...
2 days ago, I faced the same problem again and the solution above won't help at all. I use the ODIN flashed the original Samsung firmware and do reset to default through the original recovery and it works. But I lost all my internal data in the internal memory.
So, you could try the suggestion above if it helps. Just the 2nd one WILL DELETE ALL DATA and it is UNRECOVERABLE. So you been warned. Don't blame me if you lost your multi-billion project file.

marwanxx said:
Hello..
I'm getting ERROR message everytime I try to enter the recovery mood. Its happened 2 days ago. I've tried to flash the stock ROM for several times and hoping that could correct this issue. Unfortunately, that couldn't help and leaving me dissapointed.
I noticed this issue for the first time when my device cannot process the command line "Updating BLA BLA..." during entering the recovery mood. Its stop there and nothing is happened for about more than 5 minutes until I forced it to shutdown by long pressing the power button. Then, I tried to enter the recovery mood for the second time. You guys know what happened to my device?
I predict that situation is okay until when I try to WIPE all data and encountered an error message with the red text asking me to 'use UI to format system and reboot'.
But, I still don't know what to do. I'm hoping that you guys with kind hearted to please do help me. Thanks in advance.
One more thing, please teach me how to make this flash counter mark (!) disapear......... THANKS.
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Try to reflash and repartition using original Pit file and original firmware( assume is Honeycomb ) for ur tab using Odin 3.17, I've encountered this kind of problem before and voila! It nvr happen again.
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where to get odin 3.17?
thanks, btw..
*Question: I'm using Odin 3 v1.85. Is only the Odin 3 v1.70 could correct the problem?

marwanxx said:
where to get odin 3.17?
thanks, btw..
*Question: I'm using Odin 3 v1.85. Is only the Odin 3 v1.70 could correct the problem?
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Here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=428348&d=1288241246
ps. This DID work for me. I was unable to flash a working ICS with v1.85 but this version 1.70 worked.
UPDATE: My P6800 No longer powers on. No Recovery, No Download mode. nada ;(

kable said:
Here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=428348&d=1288241246
ps. This DID work for me. I was unable to flash a working ICS with v1.85 but this version 1.70 worked.
UPDATE: My P6800 No longer powers on. No Recovery, No Download mode. nada ;(
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there's another thread with this problem in 'general' will edit with link momentarily. i'm having the /data format/mount error, and i'm afraid to try flashing ICS with a previous ODIN version as i CANNOT afford to loose this device.. from what i understand... THIS is the superbrick bug.... and with no warranty for customers in the US.... ugghhh..

There is a way to fix it . You need to bet it JTAG ed . I cant vouch for the guy but there is someone
On XDA that does offer that service . I dont have the link right now but do a search and you can find
It I hope . I will look for the link later . Dont give up there is hope .
http://www.jtagbox.com/jtag-news/ri...brick-dead-boot-repair-supported-world-first/
I have been looking at this.

[Q] unbrick blaze

Hello,
I'm truly hoping someone can help me. I spent all night installing new roms on my phone. Ok let me back up. This is bout the tenth phone I've rooted. I rooted my blaze about 2 months ago using a one step(I think can't remember.) I never really installed a custom Rom until last night. The first Rom I installed was cm10, which I liked. Only problem was I couldn't mount my sd card because I am no where near a computer. So I decided to install the baked Rom. I was ecstatic to find that everything worked. However, the cm10 Rom seemed to be running at the same time. I found that very weird. So I tried to figure out a way to get the cm10 off my phone. For hours I tried wiping and reformatting different things from recovery. My problem is the last time I rebooted my blaze out wouldn't go past the Samsung screen. I've tried all combos of the volume up down and power key and it never goes past Samsung. I'm assuming I've bricked my. It will show the battery charging screen. 1st it'll show the stock screen then the baked screen for charging. Please help me. I've searched xda for help and can't find anything to help.
Ps. I'm not at a computer now but please list help for when I'm able to get to one. And yes I've only gotten about 3hrs of sleep in the last 20hrs from messing with my phone.
Sorry for posting in development first meant to post here.

Odin to stock uvlh5. From sammobile.com/firmware
Edited... because I speak without thinking

^ what he means is download the stock ICS ulvh5 firmware from sammobile.com/firmware for the blaze/sgh-t769 and flash it on Odin.
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Thats why I have the sammobile firmware and odin on a backed up. I've tried to learn from my mistakes well that's what I have learned a lot here hahahaha
Oh i remember reading you are not around a PC a lot... you need a PC for ODIN sounds like you can't get into recovery so PC only other way I know of. If I helped push thanks

how do you flash it exactly

myssdion said:
how do you flash it exactly
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Dude just Google your quote plus a few more words and follow instructions.
Or this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1591601 . If your soft bricked you need to go back to gingerbread. Than upgrade accordingly ICS than jelly whatever. Hope works out for you

jbats said:
Dude just Google your quote plus a few more words and follow instructions.
Or this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1591601 . If your soft bricked you need to go back to gingerbread. Than upgrade accordingly ICS than jelly whatever. Hope works out for you
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Yeah, I thought about that right after I asked. Thanks for the help. Got my phone back to working with a custom rom I'm too happy

myssdion said:
Yeah, I thought about that right after I asked. Thanks for the help. Got my phone back to working with a custom rom I'm too happy
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Glad to hear that

HELP with Soft Brick

So I have an old Infuse that my kids use and it went crazy the other day. Not sure what happened. Long story short I keep getting a boot loop at the ATT screen. This phone is not rooted and I'm not sure if it was on Froyo or GB. I've flashed every return from brick I can find on XDA. I'm using Odin and I'm pretty familiar with flashing/rooting etc. Can't figure this one out. The only thing I can think is the boot loaders are not the correct ones? Not sure, I keep seeing GTG's ultimate unbrick but all the links I get to it don't work. this is the only thing I haven't tried. Any help would be appreciated.
Edit to add: After I flash in Odin it goes to reboot then does the open update, verifying update, installing update, successfully installed update package.
Copying media files it says failed to mount/sdcard, can't mount /sdcard your storage not prepared yet please use UI menu for format and reboot. ??? I think that's the problem. How do I fix??

Just search in the stickies for bootloaders. That will solve your problems
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COfatboy said:
So I have an old Infuse that my kids use and it went crazy the other day. Not sure what happened. Long story short I keep getting a boot loop at the ATT screen. This phone is not rooted and I'm not sure if it was on Froyo or GB. I've flashed every return from brick I can find on XDA. I'm using Odin and I'm pretty familiar with flashing/rooting etc. Can't figure this one out. The only thing I can think is the boot loaders are not the correct ones? Not sure, I keep seeing GTG's ultimate unbrick but all the links I get to it don't work. this is the only thing I haven't tried. Any help would be appreciated.
Edit to add: After I flash in Odin it goes to reboot then does the open update, verifying update, installing update, successfully installed update package.
Copying media files it says failed to mount/sdcard, can't mount /sdcard your storage not prepared yet please use UI menu for format and reboot. ??? I think that's the problem. How do I fix??
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If you'd like to try GTG's Ultimate Unbrick, you can find a working download here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22404446&postcount=391

Tried everything and no go. Not sure where to go from here. Sure seems like a hardware issue.

COfatboy said:
Tried everything and no go. Not sure where to go from here. Sure seems like a hardware issue.
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You mentioned it's boot-looping at the Samsung logo - perhaps there's an issue with the power button.
Here's a couple of threads that may be helpful:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2107558
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1996709

prairied0gg said:
You mentioned it's boot-looping at the Samsung logo - perhaps there's an issue with the power button.
Here's a couple of threads that may be helpful:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2107558
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1996709
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It goes past the Samsung logo screen then to the ATT Rethink Possible screen then keeps looping on that screen over and over. It charges normally also.

COfatboy said:
It goes past the Samsung logo screen then to the ATT Rethink Possible screen then keeps looping on that screen over and over. It charges normally also.
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I would try flashing just a kernel (not the whole unbrick package). I have been in a similar situation and after trying everything imaginable that's what ended up fixing it for me.
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prairied0gg said:
I would try flashing just a kernel (not the whole unbrick package). I have been in a similar situation and after trying everything imaginable that's what ended up fixing it for me.
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Tried that earlier I thought, tried again just to make sure. Still no go. I appreciate all your help! :good: I'm gonna give up for tonight anyways.

COfatboy said:
Tried that earlier I thought, tried again just to make sure. Still no go. I appreciate all your help! :good: I'm gonna give up for tonight anyways.
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This happened to me earlier. What I did was-
1 Went to full stock using heimdal one click, After completetion, U may stuck in bootloop in at&t as you said
2 Flash efs.zip found in the link below using odin. put efs.zip in odin and untouch any other setting and flash, (Ur imei may be previously corrupted so u got bootloop). This doesnot do any harm. So flash with confidence. If ur device doesnot show up in odin after u flash with heimdal one click , reinstal drivers with kies mini
Link for download http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1729838
3 Now u'll be out of AT&T bootloop if ur imei was previously corrupted.
I was in similar situation. And this solved my proble.
Hit me thanks if I helped you :good:

Thanks for all the advise. Still not working. Tried everything above and much more. Different things I do give different results but pretty much the same in end. Either sticks in recovery or boot loops one way or another. Really don't see how this could be related to software but you never know I guess.
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